Hi, I'm filing my personal income tax return and wanted to confirm if I can claim the eligible dependant credit for one of my parent who I sponsored under Family Class. Based on the eligibility check mentioned on the CRA website, I think I'm eligible as I'm single and my parents lived with me in my home in the Year 2020. But I'm also aware that when I sponsored my parents, I signed the sponsorship agreement/undertaking. So, I wanted to confirm if I claim this credit from CRA if there will be any impact on the PR of my parents OR on any future sponsorships that I would like to do. For e.g. sponsoring my wife?
Below is from the CRA website:
If you have not claimed an amount for the year on line 30300 of your return, you may be able to claim this amount for one dependant if, at any time in the year, you met all the following conditions at once:
Below is from the CRA website:
If you have not claimed an amount for the year on line 30300 of your return, you may be able to claim this amount for one dependant if, at any time in the year, you met all the following conditions at once:
- You did not have a spouse or common-law partner or, if you did, you were not living with, supporting, or being supported by that person
- You supported the dependant in 2020
- You lived with the dependant (in most cases in Canada) in a home you maintained. You cannot claim this amount for a person who was only visiting you.
- your parent or grandparent by blood, marriage, common-law partnership, or adoption
- your child, grandchild, brother or sister by blood, marriage, common-law partnership, or adoption and was under 18 years of age or had an impairment in physical or mental functions